Restore stock firmware

Hello All

A while back, I installed a jelly bean ROM on my galaxy S3. I want to restore back to the stock firmware. How can I know what is the original firmware that came with my phone? I found tutorials online describing the process of restoring, but I couldn't quite grasp how do we know what is the original stock firmware. I would appreciate any assistance on this matter.

Do you want to just go to a stock ROM or do you want to unroot also? IF you want to unroot and lock the bootloader again go to the Samsung Updates site, download the .TAR file for your EXACT device and flash that via ODIN..... IF you just want a stock ROM then we will need to know what variant phone you have....

With the end of the season comes countless hours of longing to be back in the woods with bow in hand and the chase in your heart.

Do you want to just go to a stock ROM or do you want to unroot also? IF you want to unroot and lock the bootloader again go to the Samsung Updates site, download the .TAR file for your EXACT device and flash that via ODIN..... IF you just want a stock ROM then we will need to know what variant phone you have....

That's the thing. How do I know my phone variant? I mean, I have the international I9300GT, but there is no official release in my country. So how do I know which version my phone came with?

Your variant is the International one... I believe the process for you is to find your country or region code and use that.... I am not real familiar with the INT version.... Hopefully Jeffrey will pop in soon and see this. He will be the one that will know exactly how to find the proper firmware for your device.... From a quick Google search it appears that the stock firmware for the INT version is Android 4.0.4 ICS XXALF2.

With the end of the season comes countless hours of longing to be back in the woods with bow in hand and the chase in your heart.

Again, how do I know the original country of the phone? As I said, I purchased it from my home country but there is no official release here so I have no clue where the sellers got it from.

Here are the directions to find your code.... however I would think that any of them that support English (which appears to be your language) should work..... Again unfortunately I am not real familiar with the INT version... I would maybe try 2 of the options and verify you get the same results... Then you would just have to choose the version of Android you want to go with ...

Here are the directions to find your code.... however I would think that any of them that support English (which appears to be your language) should work..... Again unfortunately I am not real familiar with the INT version... I would maybe try 2 of the options and verify you get the same results... Then you would just have to choose the version of Android you want to go with ...

OK, so i found my country code and I downloaded the firmware. Can you give me a good tutorial on how to restore to that firmware? I am not an expert in android devices, so I am afraid I might do something and brick my phone, that's why I would like a detailed tutorial if possible. Thanks!

Here is a guide that is available... Instead of me typing everything out... Make sure you download and install ODIN and the Samsung USB drivers for our OS on your PC.... Then follow the steps.... Just use my links to download the proper firmware for your phone and not the ones in this link

Here is a guide that is available... Instead of me typing everything out... Make sure you download and install ODIN and the Samsung USB drivers for our OS on your PC.... Then follow the steps.... Just use my links to download the proper firmware for your phone and not the ones in this link

OK, so I did everything you told me to do. I connected my phone to Kies and found the country code to be (MAT). I downloaded the required software, and followed the steps in the tutorial. I was able to successfully flash the new firmware. However, now, I cannot connect to kies. Whenever I try to connect my phone to the computer, Kies just gets stuck at the "connecting" stage. I tried it on my Mac running mountain lion, and on a laptop running windows 7. In both cases, Kies just got stuck and couldn't connect to the phones. On my mac, the phone gave me an error saying that there are no supported drivers on the computer, or something like that. Any clue what might have happened? Is it possible that I flashed a wrong firmware?